Sea-ice-thickness variability in the Chukchi Sea,spring and summer 2002–2004 |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-19, Nishi-8, Kita-Ku, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan;2. Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, P.O. Box 757320, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320, USA;3. Department of Civil Engineering, Kitami Institute of Technology, 165 Koen-cho, Kitami 090-8507, Japan;1. Department of Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA;2. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA;3. Marine Science Program & Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA;4. Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA;5. Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA;1. College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China;2. State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China;1. A.P. Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI), St.-Petersburg, Russia;2. IGN, University of Copenhagen, Denmark;3. Russian Federal Agency for Mineral Resources (Rosnedra), Moscow, Russia;4. JSC Sevmorgeo,St.-Petersburg, Russia;5. CEED, University of Oslo, Norway, |
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| Abstract: | Measurements of sea-ice thickness were obtained from drill holes, an ice-based electromagnetic induction instrument (IEM), and a ship-borne electromagnetic induction instrument (SEM) during the early-melt season in the southern Chukchi Sea in 2002 and 2004, and in late summer 2003 at the time of minimum ice extent in the northern Chukchi Sea. An ice roughness criterion was applied to distinguish between level and rough or ridged ice. Ice-thickness modes in the probability density functions (PDFs) derived from drill-hole and IEM measurements agreed well, with modes at 1.5–1.6 and 1.8–1.9 m for all data from level ice. The PDFs derived from SEM measurements show that the primary modes are at 0.1 and 1.1 m in 2003 and 0.7 m in 2004. In 2002 and 2004, significant fractions (between one-third and one-half) of level ice were found to consist of rafted ice segments. Snow depth varied significantly between years, with 2004 data showing more than half the snow cover on level ice to be at or below 0.05 m depth in late spring. Ice growth simulations and examination of ice drift and deformation history indicate that impacts of atmospheric and oceanic warming on level-ice thickness in the region over the past few decades are masked to a large extent by variability in snow depth and the contribution of deformation processes. In comparison with submarine sonar ice-thickness data from previous decades, a reduction in ice thickness by about 0.5–1 m is in part explained by the replacement of multi-year with first-year ice over the Chukchi and Beaufort shelves. |
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